When it comes to holidays, end of October is pretty popular. Juliette Gordon Low’s birthday, Halloween, Day of the Dead – all are things both younger and older scouts love to do.
D/B/J Scout Ideas
JGL Themed Birthday Party
Service Projects
- packing birthday boxes to deliver to the food bank
Games JGL did
- Pancake Flipping
- Kim’s Game
- 2 Truths and a Lie
- Truths and Lies
- Handstands
- Donut on a String
Other Games
- Wrap each other up in toilet paper like a mummy – Collect the toilet paper afterwards to keep for a craft so you don’t waste it (i.e. paper mache)
- Bob for apples – use individual 18-inch bowls, 2 girls at a time
- Pop Halloween balloons, with random fun facts about Juliette inside of them
Crafts
- Painted pumpkins. (Halloween) – use non traditional materials like Q-tips, toothpicks, forks etc.
- Tissue Paper Marigolds (day of the dead)
- Paper Plate Skull Masks (day of the dead)
Food
- cake (for her birthday!)
- candy (Halloween)
- sugar skulls (day of the dead)
Theme a Badge
Girl Scout Way (B/J)
Art and Design (D/B/J)
Shapes in Nature (D/B/J)
Outdoor Art (D/B/J (and C/S/A))
- Brownie Elf House Plan with Trick or Treating!
Home Scientist (B)
- Halloween themed experiments
- Wizard themed: “potions class” and made slime, “care of magical creatures” with static electricity dragons, “transfiguration” is ice cream in a bag, play quidditch with a physics lesson
Senses (B)
- Simple Halloween Meeting Plan
- Printable by Geena Tee – Archived Copy of PDF
STEM Career Exploration (D/B/J)
- Explore STEM toys: Spooky senses (touching and smelling different things), candy catapults (engineering!), lava lamps (measuring, density). Then learn how people use STEM in their careers with a guest speaker or an adult dressed up like a STEM career person.
Animal Observer (D)
Could jumpstart Animal Habitats (J) to be completed at a later meeting
- Learn about Bats and their homes and act out spooky animals. Watch bats on a video and think about why they do what they do. Make a fun bat craft and eat fruits and nuts like some bats do – or make edible bugs for them to try!
Social Butterfly (J)
- Have a Monster Mash dinner/snack party and use table manners using your best monster voice and have a conversation starter jar and hold a monster conversation during the dinner/snack. Have fun with how breathing can make things spooky (Darth Vader!) and practice how breathing can also calm you and put you at ease. Write thank you notes to local heroes (fire, police, EMS, hospital, teachers, etc.)
Detective (J)
Could also theme it for Senses (B)
- Arrive dressed to solve a mystery, play a themed Kim’s Game, write a code and exchange it with someone to solve it, get fingerprinted, Leaders both write the same spooky message and Scouts figure out who wrote which, and then solve the mystery of the night that the leaders set up and you’ve been getting clues all night for.
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